Hey was wondering if people think that stress contributed to there cancer. As some of you may know by know my fiance called off our wedding about a year before my diagnosis. Needless to say I took it pretty hard. I pretty much had a nervous break down; was major depressed and binged drinked on the weekends trying to get over her. I'm wondering if all that stress whore down my immune system and caused the HPV to develop the cancer? Did anyone else have similar stress in there lives before diagnosis??? Just curious?

Charles

HPV +16 Right Tonsil SCC with 1 Right lymph node. Tonsillectomy and neck resection.

Got 33 radiation doses via tomo machine (58 gry to back of throat, 65 gry to right neck, and 56 gry to left neck) with 2 cisplatin and one carboplatin due to possible hearing loss.